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    "localId": "117531",
    "label": "Jar",
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    "id": "117531",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Jar",
    "date": "481–221 BCE",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1938.195",
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    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
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    "largeImageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1938.195/1938.195_web.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Diameter of mouth: 12.8 cm (5 1/16 in.); Overall: 25.7 cm (10 1/8 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "China, Hunan province, reportedly Changsha, Eastern Zhou dynasty (770–256 BCE), Warring States period (475–221 BCE)"
    ],
    "accession": "1938.195"
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    "tec": "earthenware with stamped decoration",
    "tombstone": "Jar, 481–221 BCE. China, Hunan province, reportedly Changsha, Eastern Zhou dynasty (770–256 BCE), Warring States period (475–221 BCE). Earthenware with stamped decoration; diameter of mouth: 12.8 cm (5 1/16 in.); overall: 25.7 cm (10 1/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1938.195",
    "collection": "China - Zhou Dynasty",
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "Wilson, J. Keith, and Anne E. Wardwell. \"New Objects/New Insights: Cleveland's Recent Chinese Acquisitions.\" <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art </em>81, no. 8 (1994): 270-347.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 309; Mentioned: p. 309, 347",
            "url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/25161465"
        }
    ],
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    "creditline": "Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 06:05:37.530000",
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}

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